2: British poet, novelist and critic A. ALVAREZ. His new book Night: Night Life, Night Language, Sleep, and Dreams (W.W. Norton & Co.) is about the dark and the night, literally and figuratively. ALVAREZ examines night terrors, dreams, sleep research, fear of the dark, and "the dark night of the soul." ALVAREZ writes, "Daylight, with its routines and busyness, keeps. . . fantasies mostly at bay. But at night, when the external world is hidden, common sense loses its points of reference, and there is space for less amenable figures to make their presence felt."
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